Top web stories: Week of January 20-24

According to an FHP release, 57-year-old Matthew Rooney was driving an International semi and trailer west on State Road 72 near the Sarasota National Cemetery around 3:40am, when several horses that escaped from a nearby farm ran into the road.

According to Florida Highway Patrol, 35-year-old Maria Fernandez was in a stopped vehicle in a parking space when she accidentally pressed the accelerator. That caused the SUV to drive through the bushes and across the sidewalk, striking Goodwin.

Sarasota County Animal Services was contacted by the Venice Police Department in November after receiving a report that 28-year-old Shelley Bezanson had killed her 7-year-old dog, Diamond, and planned to bury it at her mother's Base Avenue home in Venice.